Drífa Viðar

Drífa Viðar (5 March 1920 – 19 May 1971) was an Icelandic writer, artist and educator. Drífa contributed literary criticism to the feminist publication Melkorka during the 1960s. She published her first novel Fjalldalslilja in 1967. A collection of short stories, Dagar við vatnið, was published posthumously in 1971. She was the younger sister of the composer Jórunn Viðar. In collaboration with her sister, she worked on a libretto for the opera Snær konungur (King Snow) in 1943–1945. This would have been the first Icelandic opera, but the work remained unfinished.

In 2025, a volume about Drífa's art and life was published by Ástríki Press in Iceland.